Looking Back at 10 years of EdCamps Oh how the time flies, EdCamp Madison is turning 10 this year! It will be held Saturday, February 3rd at Sun Prairie West High School. Which can be found at 2850 Ironwood Drive in Sun Prairie Wisconsin from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm. Get more information and register here: https://sites.google.com/sunprairieschools.org/edcampmadwi/home I will always remember sitting in my first EdCamp opening session at the very first EdCamp Madison and having no clue what I was in for. So, I’d like to take this space to go over some of the basic rules of EdCamp. No One Will Pitch It for You EdCamps are unconferences. By this I mean that they have a blank slate of sessions for the day. There may be a few predetermined sessions, but ultimately the session topics are determined by attendees during the pitch & plan session that opens the day. If an idea gets pitched there will be a session on it. If a topic doesn’t get pitched, there won’t be a session on it. So, it i
I like to get my students perspective on how our class in terms of how class is going in terms of the process of learning and assessment. Informal interviews provide that opportunity. I'm always afraid it will turn into an interrogation. I never want students to feel like Dustin Hoffman in this intense scene from Marathon Man. Not for the Squeamish.
I've written up a few blogs from my perspective of the Continuous Classroom Improvement Cycle as I begin to get my feet wet in the process. I wanted to get the student's perspective of the process, though. Last week I asked my students to give informal presentations on each stage of the cycle as it is run in our class. I put these interviews together into a rough video. The major document that drives this process from class centered to student centered is described in a previous post.
The students have been through several cycles so far and are very accustomed to the rhythms of the cycle. I hope to collect some anonymous feedback on the process at the end of the year to see what the strengths an weaknesses of the process are from their perspective. I look forward to using that feedback to make the cycle more effective at making students reflect on the learning process.
I've written up a few blogs from my perspective of the Continuous Classroom Improvement Cycle as I begin to get my feet wet in the process. I wanted to get the student's perspective of the process, though. Last week I asked my students to give informal presentations on each stage of the cycle as it is run in our class. I put these interviews together into a rough video. The major document that drives this process from class centered to student centered is described in a previous post.
The students have been through several cycles so far and are very accustomed to the rhythms of the cycle. I hope to collect some anonymous feedback on the process at the end of the year to see what the strengths an weaknesses of the process are from their perspective. I look forward to using that feedback to make the cycle more effective at making students reflect on the learning process.
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